What's up with Foyt Team ??

[EngineV8]

I don't understand how the team has been falling in the results. The second part of the season just fight for the "Top 20" places, i think they have the money, drivers, so.. what can be happening inside the Foyt Team ?

[BSJracing]

I never ever EVER thought I would say this about AJ....

BUT....


He's spread to THIN!!!!!!

[Dreyerfan]

he needs to ax Greg Ray.

Bring back the crew guys for Salazar and run Dare and Salazar.


This weekend the handeling was just off, salazar nor Dare were competitve, wich is rare, cause at least one or both are always competitive.

[CrewChief]

Originally posted by BSJracing:
<STRONG>I never ever EVER thought I would say this about AJ....

BUT....


He's spread to THIN!!!!!! </STRONG>

Bingo...they need to ditch Ray and just do 2 cars. Dare had run good the last couple of races but had been taken out in accidents, but the bottom line is 2 cars is all they cna handle.

[jrandrew00]

I say ditch both Ray and Salazar. Greg was running ahead of Eliseo before the car was undrivable. I know about Ray and Dare's cars were so loose that they were having trouble keeping them off the wall and then Ray thing.

Those crew guys work so hard and I want to say keep up the work .

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: jrandrew00 ]

[IndyJim]

Run 2 cars, I don't care which drivers. If you are running three cars and running them in the back of the field, then do SOMETHING.

I could understand if they were all doing well, but...

[Martyj]

I know the league needs multiple car teams, but Foyt's would do so much better with just ONE car, like Panther.

[EngineV8]

One car sounds good, because the Foyt team have cars in Nascar, Infiniti Pro, Busch, IRL, ... maybe it's so much for one team??

And, Foyt Team did'nt test in no one track, and AJ says testing is expensive, but, 3 cars isn't expensive??

[InertZero]

They need to pitch both Salazar AND Ray. Greg has just lost confidence, and Eliseo, well, I guess a hobby of his is crashing cars.

[Guest]

"Them other races are just fillers"

[AdamM]

No testing equals no results. Thier gearing for the track was out to lunch when they showed up and it took two full practice sessions to even come close to figuring it out.

[Lost in the South]

Originally posted by CrewChief:
<STRONG>

Bingo...they need to ditch Ray and just do 2 cars. Dare had run good the last couple of races but had been taken out in accidents, but the bottom line is 2 cars is all they cna handle.</STRONG>

It would be nice if was just two cars, but I count at least six and sometimes seven.

NASCAR-1
BUSCH-1
IRL-3
IPS-1

and five of those use the Harrah's money. Harrah's is a big outfit, but they aren't funding five different rides.

[tom91]

Salazar has had a nice, long, reasonably successful career in the IRL. One win, several other podiums, often competitive. He's been a villain for most of us due to his rough driving and his somewhat-less-than modern outlook toward women in auto racing (although he seems to be a national hero in Chile). But I was glad to see him recover from that nasty wreck at Indy and finish the season.

All said, though, it's probably about time for him to retire from driving. Hope he sticks around the IRL, maybe starts a team.

Greg Ray is a tough guy to figure out. Hope he pulls it together and gets his career back on track. Lord knows I've dissed the guy plenty over the years, but he's a former league champ and Indy pole winner... I'd hate to see his career fall off the face of the earth. But this Ray/Foyt combination doesn't seem to be working well.

If I were everyone's favorite portly Texan, I'd bring Airton back in the #14, and go into sponsor hunting mode for the 2nd car... and only run it if I found the $$ to do it right. Otherwise, I'd just work toward the grandkid's debut in '04.

[EngineV8]

hmm .. from the 2000 season, Salazar was very usefull for the Foyt team. He did all the work setting up the cars, always was quickly than his teammates, and bring some money to the team. So, hope his retirement, is a little unfair, because he always show speed when he had a good race car.

Maybe AJ needs a person that managment his team with a "new vision" of racing ??, you know, Aj is an old race guy, but in 2003, some things that he do seems like he still think that is 1970.

[EdJVuky]

AJ needs to bring back Tommy LaMance to manage the team. When he was around, they were winning.